Hype Cycle for Education, 2009

ID Number: G00168224

27 July 2009

Jan-Martin Lowendahl Marti Harris Bill Rust David Gootzit Leslie Fiering Mark A. Margevicius Stephen Kleynhans Jim Tully Gregg Kreizman Ray Wagner Brian Gammage Ronni J. Colville Jeffrey Mann Michael J. King Tim Zimmerman Michael A. Silver Tom Austin Nikos Drakos Whit Andrews Ted Chamberlin Roberta J. Witty Jeff Vining Carol Rozwell Matthew W. Cain Claudio Da Rold Frank Ridder Nick Jones

The priority for education institutions in 2009 is to balance their continued focus on organizational efficiency with the uptake of innovative technologies that improve personal productivity. IT is driving change in many ways, but the CIO is not always in the driver's seat.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

The Priority Matrix

Off the Hype Cycle

On the Rise

		BPO — Education
		Quantum Computing
		SIS International Data Interoperability Standards
		Open-Source Higher Education SIS
		E-Textbook
		Cloud HPC/CaaS in Higher Education
		Digital Preservation of Research Data
		User-Centric Identity Frameworks
		CobiT — Education
		Social Learning Platform
		Mobile-Learning Low-Range/Midrange Handsets
		Mobile-Learning Smartphone

At the Peak

		Open-Source Higher Education Financials
		Lecture Capture and Retrieval Tools
		Web-Based Office Productivity Suites
		Virtual Environments/Virtual Worlds — Higher Education
		Hosted Virtual Desktops
		Unified Communications and Collaboration
		Global Library Digitization Projects

Sliding Into the Trough

		Mashups — Higher Education
		ITIL — Education
		E-Learning Repositories
		Hosted PC Virtualization Software
		802.11n
		Organization-Centric IAM — Education
		Emergency Notification/Mass Notification Software
		Open-Source Higher Education Portals
		SaaS Administration Applications for Education
		Cloud E-Mail for Higher Education
		IT Infrastructure Utility
		E-Portfolios
		Podcasting Learning Content

Climbing the Slope

		Social Networking in Education
		Tablet PC
		Digital Rights Management — Higher Education
		Wikis
		CRM for Enrollment Management
		Federated Identity Management
		Open-Source E-Learning Applications
		Grid Computing — Higher Education
		Web and Application Hosting

Entering the Plateau

Web Services for Administrative Applications

Appendixes

Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Hype Cycle Phases

	Table 2.	Benefit Ratings

	Table 3.	Maturity Levels

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Hype Cycle for Education, 2009

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Education, 2009

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Higher Education, 2008

Hype Cycle for Education, 2009
27 July 2009

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